Living near Edmonds

Edmonds has the best bus connectivity of any Burnaby station outside Metrotown and Lougheed, which is easy to overlook when the conversation is all about the Expo Line. Seven routes plus HandyDART feed the loop here. Combined with entry prices below the town centres and a large master-planned community filling in nearby, it is the station area where I think the gap between current price and future amenity is widest.

Getting around from here

An off-street bus loop serving routes 106 and 112 to New Westminster, 116, 119, 147, and 148 to Metrotown and Royal Oak, and the 133 to Holdom. HandyDART also serves the loop.

The SkyTrain maintenance and storage facility serving both the Expo and Millennium Lines is one block east. The current bus loop replaced the former Edmonds Loop at Kingsway and Edmonds.

What you can buy nearby

A mix of older walk-ups, newer mid-rise, and the towers arriving with the Southgate build-out, plus established detached streets to the south.

This station sits in Edmonds, where the full area guide covers streets, schools, price context, and what tends to come up for sale.

Who this station area suits

What the TOA rules mean here

Edmonds station, like every SkyTrain station in BC, sits at the centre of a designated transit-oriented area under Bill 47. Within 200 metres of the station, municipalities must permit at least 20 storeys. From 200 to 400 metres, the minimum is 12 storeys. From 400 to 800 metres, it is 8 storeys. Minimum parking requirements cannot be imposed on new housing inside the ring.

For a buyer, this is the difference between a lot that is worth what the house on it is worth, and a lot that is worth what someone could eventually build on it. It also means the view from a unit near this station is less permanent than it looks. The main SkyTrain guide covers the tiers in full, and the SSMUH zoning guide explains how the separate Bill 44 multiplex rules interact with it.